Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-10
WAS SHE MURDERED2
BODY OF A DROWNED WOMAN TO BE
yxHUMxD.
Suspicion that She was stransled by Hsr
Husband Dissatisfied with
verdict-Hotes,
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RALEIGH, N. g., May 9.-Coroner
Bates, of Craven county, will to-mor-
row exhume the body OF Mrs. Charles
L. Jones, the woman whose death: il is
charged, was caused by her husbands
strangling her and throwing her into
Neuse river. A special coroner held
TN inquest, which rendered such yer.
dict, but there is some doubt as to the
legality of that inquest.
There is considerable excitement in
Jackson county, growing out of the
acquittGl of Messer for killing man
Demed Sutton. There are threats OF
lynchiDg Messer, as the verdict causes
intense indignation.
The Raleigh prohibitionsts began
their campaign and displayed their
banners to-day.
Rev. W. Plummer Bryan, of Vir-
einia, has accepted a call to the pas
torate of the Presbyterian church at
Asheville.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
There are a goodly number of in
quiries for information concerning the
service OF soldiers in the Mexican war,
but as the roster has not yet been
published these cannot be answered
The roster is TO appear during the
summer, it is said.
The fourth annual convention Of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of East
Carolina will be held at Edenton May
lsth-Bishop A. A. Watson presiding.
The oldest Baptist church in North
Carolina is in Chowan Baptist Associa-
ton. The great annual meeting OF this
association began to-day at Shawboro'.
1t is not the oldest of the associations,
that of Sandy-Creek holding that po-
sition.
The industrial edition OF the Colds
bOro's Messenger, of which 10000
copies are being issued, proves to be
one of the very best ever published in
the State, and is regarded as of special
value. Editor Bonitz il a thorough
newspaper-man in the best sense of the
phrase.
THE GRAND LODGE I. o. o. r.
A good many Odd-Fellows arrived in
Tie city to-day to be present at the
meeting of the Grand Lodge OF that
order tomorrow in its annual cOmmu-
nication.
THE BRNTONsyILLE MONUMENT, &C.
The memorial exercises at Goldsboro'
will not he held tomorrow, but are
postponed until Wednesday, in order
that the people may participate in the
exercises at Smithfiell at the unwilling
Of the Bentonsville monument. The
Goldsboro' Rifles and large number
of Goldsboro' people will attend the
latter, and the Masons and Odd-Fel-
lows will have prominent places i'll the
procession. General Joseph T.. John
aton will certainly be present.
The monument at Smithfeld is COM
ploted. 1t is of white marble, about six
teen feet high. On its eastern face is
tie inscription "To the Soldiers of the
Southern Confederacy, who sacrificed
their lives in a cause which, though
lost, viii always remain dear to their
countrymen, this monument is erected
Y their admirers ana fellow-citizens."
MEMORIAL-DAY AT NEWBERNE.
Tomorrow the battalion of cadets of
the Davis School, at La Grange. will
60 to Newberne and take part in the
memorial exercises. The battalion of
four companies, about $50 strong, will
be in command of Colonel A. c. Davis,
commsndant.
Adjutant-General tombstone Jones
has been at Columbia, $. c., some days
on official business.
Governor Scales has issued an order
giving military organizations permis-
sion to pass through North Carolinl on
their way to and from the national drill.
ANOTHER MINING ROMANCE.
Quite a curious romance is reported
at Il gold mine not far from Salisbury.
An Englishman, who was at the mine
some years ago, left, made a tour OF
the world, stopping in Australia some
time, returned to North Carolina, and,
IN about an hour after reaching the
mine, married the daughterof promi-
ncnt resident there. Englishmen DO
rs many eccentric thingsas their Yankee
COUSINS.